The task for the fieldwork is to comprehensively assess the state of small watercourses for which available information of the aquatic biota, species and age structure of forests, diversity of the flora and soils was collected and analysed during the first quarter of the year.The team plans to survey the upper, middle and lower course of three pilot streams and fill in all the details in the checklists previously developed with the first WAMBAF project for the Baltic Sea Region. Simultaneously, they will record the data indicating whether this approach is suitable for small river assessments in Karelia.
This 3-year project bringing together partners from Sweden, Finland, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland aims to work out a uniform methodology and analyse the applicability of the suggested approaches in Russian realities.
